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I have friends and family in the military -- they definitely know about the suicide problem and are trying to solve it through training programs for supervisors, seminars, etc, but that's not stopping it from escalating. I know a lot of people enlist because they see it as a way up in the world, as just a job, but the idea that we can't give proper emotional support to people we pay to defend us is really distressing. Sort of underscores how we should be having a national conversation about mental health, especially in light of the Sandy Hook shootings...